Wall bottle cap and cork remover



Sept. 9, 1930.v

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Patented Sept. 9, 1930 PATENT OFFICE JOSEPH A. HOEGGER, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY WALL BOTTLE CAP AND CORK REMOVEB Application filed February 16, 1928. Serial No. 254,671.

My invention relates to improvements in bottle openers which are designed to remove caps and corks. My invention is also intended to produce a corkscrew and remover which is attached to a wall plate, and the latter adapted to be fastened to a wall, and in which the wall plate serves as a support and base for the cap remover. My invention is also intended to produce a corkscrew which will be permanently and conveniently supported so that normally it will lie against a wall, and to provide the corkscrew with a hook hanger which will project outward when the corkscrew is not in use, and which will afford a convenient hanger or hook on which articles may for convenience be suspended. In general the invention is intended to provide a neat, handsome, strong device having a convenient cap remover, and an equally convenient corkscrew, combined on a common supporting wall plate and adapted for convenient and efiective use.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a face view of the device embodying my invention.

Figure 2 is a vertical section thereof.

Figure 3 is a back view of the device.

Figure 4 is a broken cross section through the base of the cap remover, and

Figure 5 is a sectional elevation of a modification of the device.

In carrying out my invention I use a cap remover 10 which is not here claimed per se, and which has a broadened base portion 11 slotted vertically on the back as shown at 12 I to provide a way which sits on the wall plate 13. The latter is adapted for rigid attachment to a wall, and is shown provided with screws 14 for this purpose. The wall plate also serves as a support for the cork remover or corkscrew as described below, and it affords a rigid means for supporting the cap remover 10. To this end the wall plate has a supporting member 15 extending outwardly therefrom, having an inclined outer end portion 16 entering a bore 17 in the cap remover 10. A screw 18 extends transversely through the wall of the cap remover, and impinges on the inclined part 16 of the supporting member 15 and acting against the incline tends to hug the cap remover against the wall. This arrangement of the cap remover and the parts 15, 16 and 18 is not new except that I make the screw 18 with a squared socket 19 so that a key is necessary to turn the screw. If an ordinary screw is used, some people will use a screw driver or knife to loosen the screw and steal the cap remover, but they would not go to the trouble of getting a key to fit the screw. It is also a new feature to have the slotted way 12 in the back of the cap remover, and have the wall plate 13 carry I the member 15, so that the Wall plate serves as a common support for the cap remover and for the corkscrew 21.

The wall plate 13 where it extends below the member 11 is of channel formation having side flanges 20 which extend upward into close connection with the member 11 and between the fianges 20 the shank of the corkscrew 21 is pivoted as shown at 22. The pro longed upper end of the corkscrew is formed in ahook 23, so that when the corkscrew is pushed inward against the wall, the hook will extend outward as shown by dotted lines in Figure 2 and form a convenient hanger.

To facilitate the use of the corkscrew, the shank just above the pivot 22 is preferably recessed somewhat as at 24 to receive the free end of a spring member 25 which is tensioned to press outward, and can be formed by slitting the base 23 as shown in Figure 3. Thus when the corkscrew is swung outward as in Figure 2, for use, the pressure of the spring 25 will hold it in this position, but when it is pushed inward, the pressure of the spring, will be against a part of the shank of the corkscrew just above its pivot and will tend to hold the corkscrew between the flanges 20. The pressure of the spring is not enough to interfere with the free movement of the corkscrew, but just enough to steady it and hold it either shut or open as desired.

In some cases it is dsirable to dispense with the hook 23, and in this case the corkscrew has its upper end prolonged above the pivot somewhat as at 23 in Figure 5, and by pressing inward upon the prolonged or extended portion, the corkscrew is swung outward ready for use, and its upper end can be beveled as at 26 so as to bear against the wall plate 13 and limit the outward movement of the corkscrew.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that the device is a very convenient one, that the wall plate 13 serves as a rigid supporting member for the cap opener, and also for the corkscrew, and that the one device can be used either for opening a bottle by removing its cap, or by removing the cork.

I claim I 1. A structure of the kind described comprising a wall plate adapted for rigid attachment to a'wall, a corkscrew pivoted thereon, a spring co-acting with the corkscrew and tending to hold it in either open or closed position and a wall fixture shaped to fit over the wall plate and abut withthe wall, said fixture being locked to the plate and disposed to conceal the wall plate fastening.

- 2. A structure of the kind described comprising a wall plate adapted for rigid attachment to a wall having outwardly extending spaced flanges, a corkscrew pivoted and lying normally between the flanges, a spring on the wall plate pressing against the shank of the corkscrew above its pivot and a wall fix: ture shaped to fit over the wall plateand abut with the wall, said fixture being locked to the plate and disposed to conceal the wall plate fastening.

r 3. A structure of the kind described, coin-T prising a channel wall plate adapted for rigid attachment to a wall, amember pivoted in the channel of said wall plate having a cork screw at, its lower end, and an outwardly extending hook at its upper end, a spring member to hold the cork screw in opened or a closed position, and a wall fixturegrooved to fit over the wall plate and-abut with the'wall,

said fixture being locked to the wall plate and disposed to coneal the wall plate fasten ing.

4; As an improved article of manufacture, a cork removed comprising an essentially,

straight, flat-backed plate having means for attachment to a wall and with parallel spaced side flanges rising from the back of the plate, and a cork screw pivoted to the flanges and lying normally within the channel formed by the flanges, said cork screw having above "its pivot an outwardly extending member acting when the cork screwis open to abut with thewall plate and limit the opening of the cork screw.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification this 14th dayof February, 1928. r

I JOSEPH A. HOEGGER. 

